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Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
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Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
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The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.
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There is no such thing as luck there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
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In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses they take years of skull sweat.
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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.
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Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
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Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered murder in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be Using deadly weapons within city limits, or Creating a traffic hazard, or other misdemeanor.
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A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
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I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
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Teaching causes people to go into situations from which they cannot escape, except by thinking. Do not handicap children by making their lives easy.
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Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
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Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.
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Democracy is a poor system of government at best the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.
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All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
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Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.
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